Browsing: Enviroment

Every year, more than 600,000 Wisconsin vehicle owners in seven counties dutifully trudge out for their mandatory biennial emissions test. From its start in April 1984, the program has cost taxpayers approximately $271.4 million, according to the state’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB).

Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.

One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:

Protecting the environment should be a goal for individuals of every political and economic stripe

Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District’s Impact on Lake Michigan Since 1977, taxpayers in the Milwaukee metropolitan area have paid nearly $3 billion for a state-of-the-art sewerage system. Its centerpiece is the Water Pollution Abatement Program (WPAP), completed in 1996. The WPAP, the largest public works project ever undertaken in Wisconsin, increases the capacity of metropolitan-area

Wisconsin’s state government turned 150 years old this year. Over that time, Wisconsin state government has grown from a few…

A review of university course materials

Budgets are tight. Problems are tough. State and local governments have increased responsibilities, with­ out more money. Problems cut across…

What the textbooks teach